Like all things, there are exceptions. I'll agree that there is a lot of shiat beer in cans. However, there are some good ones. This list a pretty good place to start if you want to challenge your preconceptions.

Like all things, there are exceptions. I'll agree that there is a lot of shiat beer in cans. However, there are some good ones. This list a pretty good place to start if you want to challenge your preconceptions.

the can is not the issue. cans are better than glass bottles for keeping the beer.

but, i would have put this one the list, even though it's not supposed to be drunk from the can and it's not very exotic:

/ regardless, nice list to have with mardi gras here... since glass is frowned upon for public consumption.

Not a bad list excepting the inclusions of Blue Moon and High Life. Needs more examples from Surly and Oskar Blues. Overall, the list certainly is not The Best canned beers but a good cross section of brewers who can good beer.

As someone who camps and frequents music festivals in the summer that crack down on bottles (for good reason, broken bottle through the sandal will ruin anyone's weekend) I am a huge fan of this influx of craft in cans. People who hate on all canned beers are pretty much the Internet Tough Guys of beer snobs. Get out of mom's basement and live a little...

High Life is not so bad when it's a hot day, you want something light(Not 'Lite'), and all of the specialty beers are crap like Killian's Red. Also good when you are in a mood to hit the dive bars. It's got a place in my personal list. Way below most things, but above crap like Coors Light..

To all the fans of Heady Topper: if you think that one is good, you need to try to get a hold of Marshall Wharf's "Can't Dog" or the seasonal "Wet Dog." Both imperial IPAs, the latter of the two is wet hopped instead of dry hopped. I think they are both substantially better than Heady Topper. That's just my own opinion, YMMV.

Even more of an opinion, I think my own DIPA is better than both, but I realize that's pure bias right there. :)

Lightweight drinkers? You realize that a normal strength craft beer is usually in the 5-6.5% range, compared to lite beers which typically ring in between 4-4.5% ? Even if you drink Bud heavy, it's 5%. That's about as weak as craft beers are made.

The first beer on this list is over 10% abv. Also, pale ale, IPA, stout, and some of the other styles on this list are hundreds of years old, whereas "American Light" had to be added into the style categories just a few decades ago.